A Time Portal

by Elsa007

AU-Post Neverland but Pan never got into Henry's body and everyone is safe. During a picnic, a ship emerges from an odd sort of portal-one that can transfer someone through time as well as space. Lieutenant Killian Jones and Captain Liam Jones appear and Emma must choose between the kind, polite Lieutenant and her dashing rogue pirate. Captain Swan & Lieutenant Swan

11. He Decides

A/N: Another shortie but there will be more soon! Hope you enjoy this! Please review!

"Holy Hell." I muttered. The Crocodile sat back and sighed.

"There aren't a lot of good outcomes for villains like us, I suppose."

"I'm going to hurt her. Worse than Baelfire, worse than Walsh, worse than anybody. Whatever I do I will end up hurting her."

"There is just one option that ended with a happy, Ms. Swan." He agreed with a nod. "And that ends up with your demise." I nodded. Every path we tried, ever option we stared down, I did something that hurt Emma horribly. All except the one Liam had suggested. I had to let Emma choose The Lieutenant. I had to let her live a life, happy and free, never having known me as a pirate. I would fade away. She would forget me. But she would be with Killian. I would fade and my younger self would be with her sooner. He would love her. She would fall for him. Maybe they'd get married, have children. I shivered. I knew what I had to do. I had to leave. Let Emma choose him without feeling guilty over me. But where should I go? Maybe the cloaked man had told Liam how this should all work.

"I have to go." I finally said.

"Where? What will you do?"

"I have to find my brother. Find out what the cloaked man said again. I need to know how to make Emma choose him." He nodded.

"Good luck then." He held out his hand and I tentatively shook it.

"Well this is odd, Dark One."

"If you think about it dearie, you aren't exactly the one who stole my wife away anymore. Now it's going to be some other pirate so you I have no problem with."

"Hmm. Interesting."

"You aren't just giving up Emma," He said suddenly, realization dawning on his face. "You're giving up ever having met Milah." I nodded.

"I had thought about that. But I would give up everything to keep Emma happy. She deserves to be happy. She's had too much sorrow and hurt in her life. I refuse to bring about any more of it. She deserves everything life can offer. The best, the nicest, the purest, the hero." I sighed and hung my head thinking about the man who still embodied this. "She deserves him."